The Political Twilight Zone

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

One of the most embarrassing moments in the history of Trotskyism was the 
position taken by on World War II by several of its international sects and 
their leaders that it was an imperialist war, just like World War I, and that 
one should not support the US, or Great Britain, or the Soviet Union against 
the Axis Nazi-Fascist powers. Those Trotskyists with the slightest sense of 
history and politics quickly change the topic of conversation when this 
matter comes up. Only the most sectarian, the most bizarre, the Spartiest 
Spart, wear such a position like a badge of honor. The notion that Europe was 
about to fall to Tito's partisans makes sense only in the political twilight 
zone of sectarian Trotskyism.  

Heartfield's latest sally:
<< So what of the People's War? What really did happen? While Nazi Germany 
exhausted itself slaughtering Europe's partisans, the US and Britain, having 
hung back in Africa and Asia defending their colonial possessions. Only when 
Tito's Yugoslavs and Stalin's Red Army threatened to take Europe did the US 
push for a second front. Until that time their 'intervention' was pretty 
similar to the intervention in the Iran-Iraq war, where one US statesman took 
the view that it was better they wiped each other out. >> 

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --